Supervision of Community-based Orders

Community-based orders include probation, deferred custody, community supervision, and conditional supervision. Young persons placed on these orders are supervised in accordance with their assessed level or risk to re-offend. For example, very high-risk to re-offend youth receive very high levels of supervision that may include meetings with their youth worker every 48 hours. Youth on community orders also receive programming and treatment to address the factors that are contributing to their offending (i.e. substance use, school attendance, unemployment, pro-criminal attitudes and antisocial patters of behaviour). Other needs like connection with culture and traditions or cognitive disabilities are also identified and services are put into place. Youth workers work in partnership with other departments and agencies to provide the needed services that may include mental health services, programs for high risk and violent youth and additions.